Dr. Barry Sheehan is Head of the Department of Accounting and Finance at the Kemmy Business School. He is an Associate Professor in Risk and Finance and former Director for a cluster of award-winning interdisciplinary programmes, including the MSc in Machine Learning for Finance, the MSc. in Computational Finance, and the HCI-awarded Grad. Dip. in Artificial Intelligence in Finance. Dr. Sheehan is a researcher with significant insurance industry and academic experience. With a professional background in actuarial science, his research uses machine-learning techniques to estimate the changing risk profile produced by emerging technologies. He is a senior member of the Centre for Emerging Risk Studies (CERS) at the University of Limerick, which has long-established expertise in insurance and risk management and has continued success within large research consortia, including a number of SFI, Interreg Europe and EU H2020 research projects. In particular, he contributed to the successful completion of three Horizon 2020 EU-funded projects, including PROTECT, Vision Inspired Driver Assistance Systems (VI-DAS) and Cloud Large Scale Video Analysis (Cloud-LSVA). These consortia are predominately driven by technical objectives, and our role is one of assessing the legal, ethical, and actuarial impact of the state-of-the-art innovations.